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I have been over zealous with political comment lately so have now accepted the offer to assemble and write for two blogs on the WatchingUK website. The "Good News" blog is for items where we have benefited from the Brexit referendum vote and the "Bad News" blog is where others have tried to damage our chances of leaving the EU.

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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Watch the video below, but bookmark it for when you have 57 minutes to spare. It is all about "Ice-cream Sandwich" Googles new Android version 4 - now combining phone and tablet.

The video is the press announcement in Hong Kong for the new Google Samsung Nexus, which is due out in November (2011). However I have decided to wait for the new Samsung Galaxy S III (Mid-2012) as it will be more advanced - for example, the camera is 10MegaPixels instead of five.

But even so, this is truly an amazing camera - iPhone users, eat your heart out.

One of the nice things are transferability. If you have a photo or email, or in fact most things on your screen, and you touch your Android4 phone with someone else's Android4 phone and click the screen, it will transfer to the other phone. If an app, it will open up the marketplace on the other phone with the app page visible.

Microsoft is trying to make it almost impossibleto load Ubuntu on your PC in the future, and to only load Microsoft approved software.

Fortunately, Canonical and Red Hat are working with the BIOS manufacturers to allow users to add their own "approved software" list so you can add Ubuntu.

I append an article on the Canonical blog but am still unsure if you will be able to turn "Secure boot OFF" so you can load Ubuntu if some BIOS manufacturers dont allow the user to add their own "approved software" list.

As I am not sure whether I have my facts 100% correct, I show below the full contents of the Canonical article complete with links to various other sites..

Cathy Buckle
is writing
from Zimbabwe, her letter
is below. The bold paragraph in italics has been added by me especially for Brits to take note. It makes me ashamed, does it you?

Dear Family and Friends,

Its been one of those weeks where we’ve been shaking our heads in
disbelief all the time. A week of ship captains, torturers,
deported pensioners and watching TV in the dark.

First came the interview with Zanu PF’s Patrick Chinamasa by the
Independent newspaper. Asked if the 87 year old Mr Mugabe would be
the party’s presidential candidate in the next election, Chinamasa
said:

“We will put our best foot forward and President Mugabe is our
best foot. We can’t change the captain in the midst of a storm.”

How the MPs voted in the EU Referendum debate yesterday (24 Oct 2011)Here is a full list of how your MPs voted, the Ayes are first and the Nays follow on, suitably marked.Make a note and if you are upset in any way, decide how to vote at the next election.Remember two very pertinent sayings:1.: If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got. This can be translated to: If you vote how you have always voted, you will get the policies that you have always got.2. In a democracy, the people always get the government they deserve.

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Mark Shuttleworth created a computer garage in Welkom, in the Orange Free State - South Africa after University and sold it to Verisign when he reached 24 for US$ 580,000,000. He was the first man from Africa in space when he purchased a ticket from the Russians and spent eight days researching AIDS on their space station.

As we say in South Africa, Mark is a "smart cookie" but then we can see that by the advancement of Ubuntu. I have highlighted one bit below (yellow type on a purple background to make it stand out - here you will see that Ubuntu has a customer with over half a million desktops.

The title below is a link to his article so you can check that I haven't changed anything, but then, would I?

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

This post is excellent and is from Dr Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance. Although I have added a link, I have reproduced it in full. However you may well want to go and bookmark his website, or add to your RSS feed. Story here.

It is, I think, a year since I last wrote anything about British
politics. This is not because I have been idle. During the past twelve
months, I have written or published eight books. Three of these have
been substantial novels, and two of the novels are overtly libertarian.
This alone might absolve me from my duty, as Director of the Libertarian
Alliance, to give a running commentary on the issues of the day. But
the real cause is that I am, for the moment, tired of watching how this
country is governed. I feel less inclined to denounce than simply to
look away.

Thursday, 13 October 2011

Nokia shipped 453 million phones
in all of 2010 and had a 32.6 percent market share for the year.
Samsung shipped 280 million units in 2010 and maintained a 20.2 percent
share for the year, and was trailed by LG (116.7 million units, 8.4
percent market share), ZTE (51.8 million units, 3.7 percent market
share), and Apple (47.4 million units shipped, 3.4 percent market
share).

Monday, 10 October 2011

It's really not my type of programwe but my wife watches it and I have to admit, I am amazed at the quality of the band's singers. They are really top class and I am always amazed at how well they imitate the original singers at times.

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Here it is, but if you follow the link to the Mail Online you will see the lionk has been removed. But don't worry, Max has the full story on his website and I have added a link to his site after the following:

And note the picture caption (circled in the screengrab below) …. ‘media scum‘?
Don’t they mean media scrum? Oh, maybe not … because look at these
quotes from the article, that they claim the prosecution team made as
soon as the ‘guilty’ verdict was announced:

Prosecutors were delighted with the verdict and said “Justice has been done” although they said on a “human factor it was sad two young people would be spending years in jail“

There is a soldier in England who, if we were in the army at the same time, I would willingly follow to hell and back. This was an exceptional speech and George Bush had it framed at hung in the Oval Office.

"We are getting so close to a financial collapse in Europe that you can
almost hear the debt bubbles popping. All across the western world,
governments and major banks are rapidly becoming insolvent. So far, the
powers that be are keeping all of the balls in the air by throwing
around lots of bailout money. But now the political will for more
bailouts is drying up and the number of troubled entities seems to grow
by the day."

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Who is Ampers?

Ampers Taylor

A retired Marketing and Sales Manager and Journalist, originally from South Africa, who doesn't suffer politicians gladly and likes to share a lifetime of experiences. Recently an unpaid voluntary editor of a community newspaper in Finchley and now webmaster of the Brexit monitoring website watching.org.uk. Also looking after his lovely adorable wife.